Sentences with phrase «year saga»

The trustees of the Airways Pension Scheme will be eagerly awaiting the outcome of a four - year saga that saw their sponsoring employer British Airways suing them for awarding a 0.2 % discretionary increase...

Anyone who has watched the Wisconsin real - life drama has an opinion about Steven Avery's 10 - year saga with the justice system.

The Patented Medicines Prices Review Board («Board») recently concluded a 7 year saga regarding its evaluation of the price for Soliris — Alexion's admittedly breakthrough drug for rare blood disorders.

On December 20, Canada's highest court released a hotly anticipated decision that is almost certainly the final act in the more than 20 year saga of a formerly pre-eminent theater... [more]

Earlier in the year Saga held an appetizer cook off.

This is a 13 - year saga that has finally come to a close.

On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four - day - old baby barn owl — a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19 - year saga.

In an astonishing feat of investigative reporting, prize - winning journalist Dan Fagin recounts the sixty - year saga of rampant pollution and inadequate oversight that made Toms River a cautionary example for fast - growing industrial towns from South Jersey to South China.

Our 40 - year saga of unsound school evaluation needs to end.

Avengers: Age of Ultron has to work both as a standalone film and as a cog in a billion - dollar, ten - year saga.

Linklater won best director for his 12 - year saga, and the film's toplining female star, Patricia Arquette, won Best Supporting Actress.

Reviewer: Dr. Roger Griffin, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge A four year saga finally comes to a close.

Forensic evidence concerning the detection of explosive residues became one of the most controversial issues in this 16 - year saga, and that, of course, is why a book nominally written by one of the «Birmingham Six» comes to be reviewed in New Scientist.

The 12 - year saga involving the Buffalo teachers contract ended in dramatic fashion Monday with both the Board of Education and the Buffalo Teachers Federation going down to the wire before agreeing to a new contract that capped a wild, frenzied day.

Prosecutors will not attempt to retry former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell and his wife Maureen on corruption charges, ending a four - year saga that rocked the Commonwealth's political class and cut short the rise of a Republican star, according to a court filing.

By giving the State Department of Education the power to implement an evaluation system in New York City, the Governor will bring this three - year saga to a successful conclusion.

If he signs off on the plan, than Genting will be able to start construction, putting an end to a nearly nine - year saga.

After EU approval in March, a two - year saga is almost over.

Throughout their whole three - year saga, the Straters have blamed one person — Julius Kivimaki — for waging a troll war against them.

U.S. President Barack Obama has announced he's rejected TransCanada's application to build the Keystone XL pipeline, capping a seven - year saga that became an environmental flashpoint in both Canada and the United States.

Using her restored film stature, Midler set up her own production company and produced Beaches (1988), a pals - through - the - years saga that proved to be a four - hankie audience favorite.

Not exact matches

Roughly two years from that date, Target Canada filed for creditor protection, marking the end of its first international foray and one of the most confounding sagas in Canadian corporate history.

The saga of the Plaza has become increasingly more convoluted in recent years.

The legal saga of Liliane Bettencourt — 92 - year - old heiress to the L'Oreal fortune, and second richest woman in the world — has lasted for years, after her estranged daughter, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, filed a lawsuit alleging that her mother was in unfit condition to manage her estate in 2007.

But for three years, Cheetos were cardboard in the eyes of Canadian customs officials, spawning a decade - long saga that highlights the often - senseless bureaucracy gumming up the Canada-U.S. border.

Many factors have weighed on the markets this year including a Greek saga, Federal Reserve policy changes, and lofty equity valuation levels...

In the years that followed, he heard play's voice of Joy when he smelled a flowering currant bush, when he discovered the autumn of Beatrix Potter's Squirrel Nutkin, when he read Longfellow's Saga of King Olaf, and again when he later became involved in Wagnerian Romanticism.

I've been following the Mars Hill saga very closely, because our church had a very similar drama a year ago.

Even though Rudolph had been around as a story book character well before 1949, Gene Autry's recording in that year of the musical version of the saga made the red - nosed reindeer a standard member of the Yuletide cast in popular culture.

There's some nice interaction between Jesse and Mincaye, one of the tribesmen who killed the missionaries 55 years ago, and the spirit of forgiveness continues to ring loud and clear in this ongoing saga.

And then there is the host of quasi-mythic beings that King himself invents, from the dizzying cast of his Dark Tower saga to the unearthly Long Boy, which haunts the visions of a writer and his wife in last year's Lisey's Story, fixing them with «the hideous pressure of its insane regard.»

A Morich plant from the previous year, grown from the same Chileman seedpack, was even more prolific in its 2nd year (see updated Saga Jolokia report).

If you need to catch up on some of my eight - year stomach pain saga, read here.

For years now they have been very prolific (except last year, see my post here on the weather saga) and we have found ourselves (Mr ND loves to bake too!)

Another two years went by until the «Saga Jolokia» made significant progress.

The 28 - year - old won't be at peak fitness or sharpness yet after a protracted transfer saga and little time to train with his new team - mates, but that didn't show as he looked a real threat throughout against the Toffees.

Pity, a few years back when the whole Walcott transfer saga was ongoing I did a stadium tour with my dad and a bunch of tourists.

The saga of Hillsdale was now, without any question, one of the most unique and colorful success stories to pop up around any race track in years.

The ongoing contract sagas involving both key men Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez have been going on since the previous campaign, and earlier in the year, were believed to have been nearing their ends.

In the mad transfer saga that has been Higuain to Arsenal, a story that has been ongoing for the past few years at least, you won't be entirely shocked to hear that there is yet another development to the case.

The Alexis Sanchez saga has been rumbling on for over a year, and it would appear that he will be leaving Arsenal at the earliest opportunity going by the way that Wenger has softened his stance and has resigned himself to losing the Chilean.

Wenger continued to field the 29 year - old despite the ongoing saga, and he insist that his former star always tried his best to try and help us win, despite the obvious problems with the situation.

After a long and pretty boring transfer saga, 19 year old John Obi Mikel is finally signing for Chelsea.

The 16 - year - old joined Real Madrid from Stromsgodset last January, after a long - running saga where he was linked to many clubs across the continent [Daily Mail].

In a saga somewhat similar to that of Liverpool's Raheem Sterling — albeit in a much less public manner, such is the Dortmund way — the 24 - year - old has rejected a new # 100,000 a week deal.

Steven Davis has become the latest player to put the Rangers saga behind them by signing a three - year deal at Southampton.

I regret deeply that we have not learned from the RVP saga and have yet again allowed key players to enter the final year of their contract but I don't blame the players for not wanting to be part of Wenger's «vision» of the future.

Apparently they thought that our centre back was entering the final year of his current contract so they could pretty much force us to sell unless Koscielny himself did not want to go and after the saga of us selling Robin van Persie to a direct Premier League rival in Manchester United they would probably have been right, except that they were wrong.

Now it looks like Liverpool may be faced with the same trouble we used to have, highlighted by the Raheem Sterling saga and the fact that Henderson is about to enter the last year of his deal.

Let him go all that he brings has been outweighed by this saga and last year's negativity.